Google

Financial Analyst I, Cloud Central

Google$95K — $136K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or similar quantitative field, or equivalent experience.
  • 2 years of FP&A, consulting, or related experience, or an advanced degree.
  • Experience with full-cycle FP&A functions like budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis in a multinational context.
  • Familiar with developing financial reporting and analytical processes.
  • Understanding of strategy development in dynamic environments.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and prioritize financial risks while applying resources to mitigate or capitalize on them.
  • Facilitate monthly close and quarterly reporting cycles, ensuring consistent presentation and analysis of financial data.
  • Collaborate with central finance teams to streamline operational workflows and improve accuracy of data reporting.
  • Act as operational leader for key workflows, maintaining important team resources and promoting data integrity across systems.

Benefits

  • Access to equity benefits and performance bonuses.
  • Comprehensive health coverage and wellness programs.
  • Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
  • Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
  • Experience executing full-cycle FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience with building financial reporting, produce analysis, implementing scalable monitoring and implementing reporting solutions.
  • Experience in developing strategies in changing engaged environments, impeccable business judgment for resource allocation decisions to achieve the desired business outcome.
  • Ability to work with data to produce analysis, influencing decision making with numerical analysis and generating insights.


About the job

Financial Analysts ensure that Google makes sound financial decisions. As a Financial Analyst, your work, whether it's modeling business scenarios or tracking performance metrics, is used by our leaders to make strategic company decisions. Working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to take on big picture challenges.

With your analytics and financial acuity, you'll liaise between the Finance team with the functional areas it supports. You resolve issues related to forecasting, planning, resource prioritization and business profitability, and you help translate analyses into easy-to-understand presentations.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $95000 - $136000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Identify, evaluate, and prioritize risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.
  • Act as the operational backbone for monthly close and quarterly reporting cycles. Compile standard presentation templates, analyze profit and loss variances, and maintain technical documentation to ensure scalable, repeatable fiscal reporting.
  • Partner with central finance teams to identify operational bottlenecks and implement automated or AI-driven workflows. Build cross-functional relationships to resolve data inaccuracies and continuously improve reporting speed and data health.
  • Serve as the operational owner for critical team workflows, including maintaining the Cloud Central calendar that multiple teams rely on to plan processes. Establish rigid data hygiene standards by managing system-wide data freshness, driving platform navigation enhancements, and performing complex cross-system reconciliations.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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Size
156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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